Un-eáðe
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - un-eáðe
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- un-eáðe
- adv. I. where a thing is not easily done, with difficulty :-- Se weliga uneáþe (-eáðe, Lind.) gǽþ in heofuna ríce dives difficule intrabit in regnum coelorum, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 19, 23. Swíðe uneáðe (-eáða, Lind.) l hefige, Mk. Skt. Rush. 10, 23: Lk. Skt. Lind. 18, 24. Hé uneáðe áwæig com, and him ðǽr micel forférde, Chr.1052; Erl. 181, 18. Swíðe strang gyld, ðæt man hit uneáðe ácom, 1040; Erl. 166, 21. Ða lufe mon mæg swíðe uneáþe oððe ná forbeódan, Bt. 35, 6; Fox 170, 11. Ongit hé swá micle máran sige on him selfum swá hé uniéð wiðstód he will feel so much greater victory in himself as he had greater difficulty in withstanding, Past. 52; Swt. 407, 26. Ðisse ádle fruman mon mæg ýþelíce gelácnian ... and æfter unéð, gif hió bið unwíslíce tó lange forlǽten, Lchdm. ii. 232, 17. Cumaþ æalle tó ánum hláforde, sume ǽð sume unéð, Shrn. 187, 15. II. where a thing is not easily borne, grievously, hardly :-- Sume uneáþe gedrycnede (gedrehte, MS. C.) áweg cóman turpi macie exinanitos adflictosque pestilentia dimiserit, Ors. 3, 3; Swt. 102, 10. Ríc heofna uneáðe geðolas regnum caelorum vim patitur, Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 11, 12. III. where a thing is not readily done, unwillingly, hardly :-- Ðá geþafedon ðæt uneáþe ða his gesacan quod cum adversarii inviti concederent, Bd. 2, 2; S. 502, 24. Ðá underféng hé hig uneáðe vix fratre compellente suscipiens, Gen. 33, 11. IV. with a force only slightly removed from a negative, hardly, scarcely, only just :-- Uneáþe cwic ætberstende vix vivus evadens, Coll. Monast. Th. 27, 3. Uneáðe Isaac geendode ðás sprǽce ðá com Esau vix Isaac sermonem impleverat, venit Esau, Gen. 27, 30. Hé uneáþe ðurh hine sylfne oþþe árísan oþþe gangan mihte vix ipse per se exsurgere aut incedere valeret, Bd. 4, 31; S. 610, 19. Uneáþe ic mæg forstandan ðíne ácsunga and cwist þeáh ðæt ic ðé andwyrdan scyle vix rogationis tuae sententiam nosco, ne dum ad inquisita respondere queam, Bt. 5, 3; Fox 12, 15. Ic hit mæg uneáþe mid wordum gereccan sententiam verbis explicare vix queo, 20; Fox 70, 27. Uneáþe ǽnig com tó ende ðære sprǽce ad rem ... cui vix exhausti quidquam satis sit, 39, 4; Fox 216, 16. Uneáðe (pretium scorti) vix (est unius panis, ProChauc. unnethe, unnethes, and v. Halliwell's Dict. unnethe.] un-eaðe